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A Glendale mental health facility on Wednesday unveiled a $1.7-million renovation that includes soundproofing to ensure privacy during therapy sessions, a shower for clients who may be homeless, an expanded children’s waiting room and a larger...

Los Angeles County officials Wednesday completed a major reorganization in the top tier of management, moving some upper officials out of the county's chief executive office and bringing others into newly created positions.
County leadership has been in...

Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to move toward consolidating three departments dealing with different aspects of public health. But they did so over the objections of mental health advocates who worry that those services will get buried in...

Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to move toward consolidating three departments dealing with different aspects of public health. But they did so over the objections of mental health advocates who worry that mental health services will get...

Los Angeles County government is in the midst of an intriguing organizational shake-up. In one move announced Thursday, the office of the chief executive was reconfigured to make it easier to implement reforms in child welfare and the Sheriff's...

A new majority on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors say they want to place child welfare back at the center of their agenda this year, including reconsidering a series of reforms that their predecessors refused to authorize last year.
The...

Amid a change in top leadership at Los Angeles County, the Board of Supervisors is considering a major overhaul of the way the county provides health services to its 10 million residents.
Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich wants to merge the county's...

Over the last eight months, Los Angeles County social workers fielded repeated reports that Alan Dean Edwards' two children were in danger.
They opened investigations and let some complaints languish past the state's 30-day deadline, according to county...

At their first meeting following a major election turnover, the new Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors removed the county's acting chief executive and appointed a new one.
Two new supervisors, Hilda Solis and Sheila Kuehl, were sworn in Monday to...

Los Angeles County supervisors voted Tuesday to set up a civilian oversight commission to oversee the Sheriff’s Department, marking a major milestone for the troubled law enforcement agency.
Advocates of the move have long called for such a...

Faced with a series of scandals that have roiled the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to create a civilian oversight system to provide greater accountability for the agency.
The action is the latest in...